Among the discussions, Jobs spoke of an Apple TV 2 set-top box and mentions TV subscriptions with networks, apps, a browser and a "magic wand" control device.

"Stay in the living room game and make a great 'must have' accessory for iOS devices," Jobs advised.

Elsewhere, the former Apple boss talked about lodging a "holy war with Google" and admitted it needed to "catch up" with Google cloud services and Android areas where they were behind, such as notifications, tethering and speech.

"[We should] tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem," Jobs instructed.

At a court testimony in San Jose on Friday (April 4), Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller said that items mentioned in the email were just an outline of strategies and not necessarily set in stone.

Apple is demanding $2 billion in damages for five patents it claims Samsung infringed, while Samsung is looking for $6.9 million relating to two alleged patent infringements.